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...written selections, works of art or political views is found not illegal, just merely unacceptable, and subsequently removed from the public forum, to see if his reaction is still the same. Perhaps he should spend a little less time trying to drop in references to the ivory-tower academics he studies, and a little more time considering the real-life consequences of his suggestions...
...often lacking in off-line society. They meet and swap tips in the chat rooms, they build friendships over sales, they sometimes even wed. Spend any amount of time hanging out here and you will get the impression of a vast, virtual citadel under rapid construction, a tower of Babel with street hawkers on every level, most all of them kept honest by the gaze of their neighbors...
Reed College, Temple University, the University of Vermont, Rutgers University, and City College of New York have come forward with varied expressions of reconciliation for their mistreatment of faculty during the Cold War, according to Schrecker’s 1986 book, No Ivory Tower...
...digital media wave was recently at a crest. CD burners were widely used (and widely accepted) as do-it-yourself piracy kits, bringing much joy to the lives of nearly every computer-literate student and much distress to the careers of Tower Records executives who, coincidentally, declared a no-return policy on all compact discs. Thanks to Napster, people didn't need to leave home for a five-fingered discount on music. The recording industry's nightmare was the morally flexible college student's dream...
Japan's Ministry of Trade occupies a 17-story granite tower in the heart of Tokyo's political district. The building looks as sturdy as ever. The bureaucrats inside are still recording trade surpluses with the rest of the world, month after month after month. This is the powerful agency--known as MITI, or the Ministry of International Trade and Industry--that two decades ago provoked fear and loathing in Washington because it was masterminding a protectionist and predatory strategy that vaulted Japan to the summit of the world's economies. Or so it was thought. But that...